A U.S. appeals court on April 17 put on hold a lower court order that had halted construction of the White House ballroom, allowing the project to proceed for now.
Previously, U.S. District Judge Richard Leonissueda preliminary injunction blocking above-ground construction of the ballroom but allowed “below-ground” construction of national security facilities to continue.
Leon had said the project cannot continue without authorization from Congress.
But now, as Aldgra Fredly reports for The Epoch Times,a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on April 17 blocked Leon’s injunction and scheduled a June 5 hearing to decide on whether the project should be halted.
The Epoch Times reached out to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which filed the lawsuit last year, but did not receive a response by publication time.
The White House first announced the project in July 2025, saying it would span 90,000 square feet.
The construction phase began in September 2025, and the ballroom is expected to be completed before President Donald Trump’s presidency ends in early 2029, according to the White House.
The National Capital Planning Commissionapprovedthe ballroom project on April 2.
In December 2025, the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit alleging that construction of the White House ballroom is unlawful and requested that the court halt the project.
Leonruledin favor of the National Trust for Historic Preservation on March 31, ordering that “the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.”
Source: ZeroHedge News
